我が袖にまだき時雨の降りぬるは
君が心にあきや来ぬらむ
君が心にあきや来ぬらむ
- Roma-ji
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Waga sode ni madaki shigure no furinuru wa kimi ga kokoro ni aki ya kinuramu
- English Translation
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Upon my own sleeve
the early autumn showers
have begun to fall;
has autumn, weariness of me,
come at last into your heart?
- Meaning
- The early showers have already fallen upon my sleeve. Could it be that autumn has come to your heart, and you have grown weary of me?
- Commentary
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Book Fifteen Love Poems V 763
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poem guesses that the early rain falling on her sleeve means autumn, aki, has come to her lover's heart, that is, he has grown tired, also aki, of her. Tears are likened to autumn showers, and the pun on autumn and weariness shows his change of heart, a device that recurs throughout Love Poems V.
The first line names her sleeve, where the tears fall. As in 756, tears on the sleeve symbolize love's grief.
In the second line madaki means "too early," and shigure is the intermittent rain of late autumn and early winter, standing for tears.
In the third line nuru, the attributive of the perfective nu, means "that it has fallen."
The fourth line, "in your heart," moves the season of showers into the lover's heart.
In the last line aki is a pivot word, meaning both "autumn" and "weariness." Ya is resolved by the attributive ramu.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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